EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA
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EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA has 2944 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.69 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.39 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.70 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 46 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA has a turbo clock of 1.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper is 1.393 GHz.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 88 °C.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper is equipped with a 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA are cooled with a AIO water cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper is cooled by a Water cooling.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC2 ULTRA was released in Q1/2019.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.